Atlanta, Georgia 30345

Phone: (404) 444 - 4647

After singing professionally for 31 years, I developed vocal and technical problems. I faced the possibility of having to stop singing… Due to Marina Gilman’s excellent technical knowledge, intuition, wonderful common sense and commitment to helping her clients, I overcame my original vocal issues and developed a solid technique enabling me to have joy in singing more than ever. Marina has truly helped me create a second (and better) singing career.

Al Sofia

About Us

“Only someone with Marina’s vast experience gained through years of training and working as a singer, voice and speech teacher, vocal coach, speech language pathologist and Feldenkrais® somatic educator could have developed such an approach!”
Anonymous Student

Marina Gilman: B.S. Indiana University (music), M.M. Ithaca College (voice), M.A. Northwestern University (speech and language pathology). Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®; licensed Speech Language Pathologist, voice specialization; voice and speech teacher.

Marina Gilman has sung professionally for over 30 years. She taught singing at the college level (Cornell University and Syracuse University) and acting (DePaul University) and maintained a private studio teaching voice since 1974. In 1997, upon receiving her certification as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and licensure as a speech language pathologist, Marina expanded her practice to include lessons and classes in The Feldenkrais Method® as well as private practice voice therapy.

Marina began developing The Integrated Voice in 1997. INTEGRATED VOICE brings together her understanding of body mechanics and movement with her comprehensive knowledge of voice.

She has presented INTEGRATED VOICE workshops for singers and voice professionals, opera companies, university music departments, Voice and Speech Trainers Association conference, the Voice Foundation Annual Symposium on the Care of the Professional Voice, British Voice Association Conference and the International Conference on Physiology and Acoustics of the Singing Voice.

In her capacity as speech and language pathologist Marina has presented workshops on vocal health as well as the application of The Feldenkrais Method® to voice training and voice therapy for the Voice Foundation Annual Symposium on the Care of the Professional Voice and at the National Feldenkrais conferences.

In addition to her private studio and workshop presentations, Marina has worked as Speech Language Pathologist with voice specialization for such major Voice Care Centers as the Bastian Voice Institute; Loyola Voice Institute, Loyola University Medical Center Chicago; The University of Chicago Hospitals and as singing voice consultant for The University of Chicago Voice Center. She is currently the singing voice specialist for the Emory Voice Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University.

Marina has taught at the School at Steppenwolf, part of the Steppenwolf Theater Company; as an adjunct faculty member at the DePaul University Theater School department of voice and speech; as Director of the Vocal Coaching Program at Cornell University; as an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Ithaca College and Chair of the Voice Faculty at Syracuse University.

Marina’s performing career includes major operatic roles with the Tri-cities Opera in Binghamton and the Ithaca Opera, Ithaca New York as well as solo recitals in the central New York and Chicago regions.

Developing the INTEGRATED VOICE

Study of The Feldenkrais Method® provided Marina a new understanding of body dynamics. She began to appreciate that even small movements or minor tensions, can get in the way of vocal production, vocal flexibility, and freedom of expression. The Feldenkrais Method provided insight for recognizing and teaching others how to become aware of the inefficiencies of posture and movement. It provided the tools to help students discover more efficient alternatives.

Certification as a speech language pathologist with specialization in voice provided Marina not only a strong understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the voice, but also how minor changes, both normal and pathological, in the vocal mechanism can affect not only the function of the vocal folds, but also breathing and posture.